Princess
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- "This tournament is a cakewalk! I've already completed all the tiers! I even went above and beyond and collected twenty ranks instead of just fifteen! They should just declare me the winner already, there's no way anyone is catching up!"
- ―Princess, Make a Good Mega Man Level 3
Princess is a character from the Brazilian Novas Aventuras de Megaman comic. A woman with a magical girl-esque motif, she is hotheaded and likes havoc. She appears in Make a Good Mega Man Level 3 as a minor NPC, albeit one with a recurring presence in the game's story. Unlike her source material, her MaGMML incarnation is explicitly a robot, and has a significantly more egotistical, self-centered, and unpleasant personality.
Game Appearances
Make a Good Mega Man Level 3
Princess first makes a brief cameo in Ernest Will's promotional video, as one of many robots competing in the 6th Worldwide Sponsored Robot Tournament. In-game, she appears in the Victor Heights lobby, bragging about earning twenty Tier Ranks (as opposed to the fifteen that are available). After Mega Man earns his first Tier Rank, she is caught by Ernest Will and disqualified, as all her Tier Ranks are fake. After earning two Tier Ranks, she appears outside the Magic Card Casino, sulking about being banned from all tournament areas and fuming at Mega Man's continued success. After obtaining thirteen Tier Ranks, however, Princess permanently vanishes from the Casino – her absence is noted by Magic Man, but swiftly ignored.
When Mega Man confronts Dr. Regal after earning all Tier Ranks, Princess is revealed as one of Regal's hostages (the villain having mistaken her for Roll). She is soon saved (however ungracefully) along with the other hostages by Ernest Will, and promptly ferried to safety. She is nowhere to be seen afterwards, even in the postgame, save for a brief cameo in the battle against the Ernest Jet in the True Arena. Here, she (or a simulation thereof) is hooked as part of the Jet's Bait Bobber attack and slammed into the ground, exploding with the traditional boss explosion (albeit it can harm Mega Man). All subsequent uses of the attack feature a blue, corpse-like Princess, even in subsequent refights.
While she has roughly the same role in Proto Man Mode (including again being taken hostage by Dr. Regal, who this time assumes her to be a bodyguard for Kalinka), in Bass Mode, though still a minor NPC, Princess has a significantly greater role in the story. The context behind her initial disqualification is revealed after Bass earns his first Tier Rank: after some snobbery on her part towards Bass, he tricks her into yelling out loud that she supposedly has twenty Tier Ranks, causing her to flee once a pair of security guards' suspicions are raised. Her role afterwards remains mostly the same as the main game; however, she remains outside the Magic Card Casino even after Bass earns thirteen Ranks, with Dr. Regal kidnapping a different set of hostages.
Once the awards ceremony is underway, Princess, disguised as Mega Man, sneaks into the event in his place. While accusing "Mega Man" of cheating, Bass realizes she isn't the real Mega Man and swiftly reveals her. Angered, she admits she sabotaged Mega Man's tournament progress by pushing him into a pit of spikes (though she reveals he will indeed recover), before angrily insulting and mocking the other finalists. In the chaos, Bass – now denied the chance to fight Mega Man, the only reason he entered the tournament – lunges towards Princess and violently mauls her. This destroys her integrated circuit, effectively killing her. Though initially shocked, the incident is mostly celebrated by the audience. Consequently, the Ernest Jet's Bait Bobber attack always starts with the "dead" Princess when fought.
Trivia
- Princess's less-than-dignified role in MaGMML3's story is derived from what was intended for her in Novas Adventuras de Rockman: writer José Roberto Pereira wanted Princess to kill off the entire cast of the comic, including the Mega Man characters, so that she could take over the story. Once Pereira was found out, he was fired and Princess was written out of the comic.
- The "dead" Princess that appears in the Ernest Jet fight homages The Doise from Pizza Tower. In that game, he replaces The Noise as a boss in the latter's campaign, and will be dead on all subsequent refights, complete with blue coloring.
- The attack Bass does on Princess in the cutscene of his mode is a homage to Akuma from Street Fighter and his "Shun Goku Satsu" attack.
